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Careful copy of a lengthy Panjabi poem on the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusayn and Durr al-majālis a Persian prose work on ethics. Extensive contributions to the cataloguing from Connie Bobroff, Arif Naushahi, Ali Rafi, and Hossein Mottaghi.

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Karbalāʼ, Battle of, Karbalāʼ, Iraq, 680--Poetry.Shiite poetry--Early works to 1800.Muslim martyrs--Poetry--Early works to 1800.Imams (Shiites)--Poetry--Early works to 1800.Prophets in the Koran.Sufism--Early works to 1800.Islamic ethics--Early works to 1800.Manuscripts, Panjabi--Michigan--Ann Arbor.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

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i, 14 IV(112), II (116), 12 IV(212), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in black in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).

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Nastaʻlīq ; elegant Indian hand in a thin to medium line ; in opening work, large and spacious, in final word smaller and more compact though appears to be the same hand ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, inclination to the right, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, yāʼ always pointed, point of final nūn often set down within wide bowl ; naskh employed for transcription of some Arabic passages (see opening of final work on p.236).

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As appears in colophon on p.232, transcription of opening work completed 2 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1259 [ca. 24 December 1843] in Amīnʹpūr. As appears in colophon on p.424, final work copied by Muḥammad Bakhsh valad-i Muḥammad ʻAẓīm (likely the same copyist who executed Isl. Ms. 852 and Isl. Ms. 854) with transcription completed 15 Rajab 1244 [ca. 21 January 1829].

حامد
in end of this collection Mss (p. 233) that finished this mss: تصنيف حامد after than start in (p. 233) 2 مرثيه one of them مرثيه امام حسين pot is نصيرالحق and other مرثيه امام حسين titled مرثيه ابصار؟ mybe that is also from nasir al-hag, all of them is in panjabi or Sendi or dialcet of Urdu (?) language, next start in (p. 236) until end of Mss is درّ المُجالس Dur-almujalis athur is سيف ظفر علي نوبهاري

The repeat of some Syllabuses of the Word تمام in form of تم is usually typical in case of loanwords from Arabic and persian in manuscripts which are written in indian dialects. It’s also to see in case of persian number “دوییم” in this Colophon. So i think the two words in red at the end of Colphon could be also “تم تم”.

The date is so:
Sunday 2nd of ذی الحجه of the year 1259 from the Hejira and the other number 1888 is in Indian calender.
But i could not recognize the words “سه پیر” which could be some especial time of a day in Punjabi dialect. i.e. afternoon or some other time like this.

There is also some other manuscript in this collection with this name as scriber
Isl. Ms. 852 – میزان الطب
The information of the entries, which are given in the record of both of these manuscripts are comparable, that could finally lead us to more reliable information about them.

Dorr ol-Majāles by Sayf Zafar `Ali Nawbahāri runs from
PDF p. 250 (pencil = 236)
to
PDF p. 438 (pencil = 424)
I will refer to this text as “DM” in comments below since there are several texts bound together in this mss.

DM:
Written Thursday, 15 Rajab 1244 (=21 Jan 1829)
in the [Hindu] month of Magh in the [Hindu year] 1885 in the village
of Aminpur in the house of Deva Singh Hanibal
(Credit to Kamal Abdali for assisting with the Hindu date.

DM: This is a Persian prose work on ethics obviously influenced by Sa`di’s “Golestan” in style and format and likewise divided into “bab” (chapters). However, the stories are all of a religious nature. The last story is an anecdote about Imam Hosayn, Yezid and Zaynab justifying this text’s inclusion in this mss devoted to Karbala.
Another copy of the text at the Majles Library in Tehran,
1/ 14248 (full text, PDF)http://dl.ical.ir/UI/a9ef606f-d981-4e25-a0ce-5cfe65e35afd/Catalogue.aspx
has a much more complete introduction and list of chapters. (Please see the excellent cataloging for that mss as well.)
Also note there is another copy/version at
Also, see Dargah Aliyah Mahdaviya Library, Palanpur- Gujarat, no. 65http://www.noormicrofilmindia.com/mulanaf-013.htm